Staging: unisys: fix potential format string leak

Since "name" is always used directly, force "%s" for the kthread
format string to avoid any potential format string leaks.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c
index d5178b44ba8c9485c44ad9ce980e4df4550ac419..202bfabfec6c58dd349086e1347bc335fcbb1f44 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static int visor_thread_start(struct visor_thread_info *thrinfo,
 {
        /* used to stop the thread */
        init_completion(&thrinfo->has_stopped);
-       thrinfo->task = kthread_run(threadfn, thrcontext, name);
+       thrinfo->task = kthread_run(threadfn, thrcontext, "%s", name);
        if (IS_ERR(thrinfo->task)) {
                thrinfo->id = 0;
                return PTR_ERR(thrinfo->task);